diff --git a/examples/model_selection/grid_search_digits.py b/examples/model_selection/grid_search_digits.py
index 50ba4dc097f8b1cfa887ac9103689f82bcf19307..b1457fd98ae09f4df3a656cb5a26b69943f0928d 100644
--- a/examples/model_selection/grid_search_digits.py
+++ b/examples/model_selection/grid_search_digits.py
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ for score in scores:
     print("# Tuning hyper-parameters for %s" % score)
     print()
 
-    clf = GridSearchCV(SVC(C=1), tuned_parameters, cv=5,
+    clf = GridSearchCV(SVC(), tuned_parameters, cv=5,
                        scoring='%s_macro' % score)
     clf.fit(X_train, y_train)